document_title: Power Rangers (film)

question_text: who did the music for power rangers 2017

text: Power Rangers (film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: In the Cenozoic era, six interplanetary warriors, the Power Rangers, are tasked with protecting life on Earth and the Zeo Crystal. The Green Ranger, Rita Repulsa, betrays them and plans to dominate the universe. The Red Ranger, Zordon, survives Rita's attack and hides five of the Rangers' power source, the Power Coins. He orders Alpha 5 to perform a meteor strike that kills him, the dinosaurs, and sends Rita to the bottom of the sea, foiling her scheme.

text: In 21st-century Angel Grove, high school football star Jason Scott is dismissed from the team and placed under house arrest after a failed prank. In detention, he encounters Billy Cranston and Kimberly Hart. After defending Billy from a bully, Billy offers to deactivate Jason's ankle monitor for help at an old gold mine that evening. Once there, Jason leaves to explore and runs into Kimberly. Billy detonates explosives to break some rock, attracting the attention of Jason, Kimberly and nearby students Trini and Zack. The five discover the Power Coins and each take one. While escaping mine security, their car is hit by a train. The five find themselves at home the next morning and discover that the coins have granted them superhuman abilities. Elsewhere, Rita's body is found. Waking, she goes on a rampage, hunting pieces of gold to raise her minion Goldar to find the Zeo Crystal.

text: The five teenagers return to the mine and discover an ancient spaceship where they meet Alpha 5 and Zordon's consciousness. They inform the teenagers about the Rangers history and Rita, warning that they have eleven days until Rita has her full power, finds the Zeo Crystal, and uses it to destroy life on Earth. The five leave the ship with no intention of returning until Zordon pleads with Jason to convince the team.

text: The five return to train the next day, but they cannot morph. They spend the next week training against simulated Putties and trying unsuccessfully to morph. To inspire the Rangers, Alpha reveals the Zords. Zack takes his Zord out for a joyride and almost kills the other Rangers when he crashes it. This angers Jason, and they fight. While trying to separate the two, Billy spontaneously morphs. However, when he becomes conscious of it, the armor disappears. Angered at their lack of progress, Zordon dismisses the group. Jason returns to the ship to confront Zordon and discovers that once the Rangers morph, it will open the Morphing Grid and allow Zordon to restore himself in a physical body. Feeling betrayed, Jason accuses Zordon of using the team for his own benefit. That night, the team camp at the mine and bond with each other.

text: Later that night, Rita attacks Trini and orders her to bring the Rangers to the docks. Trini informs them about Rita and they arrive to fight, but are quickly defeated. Rita forces Billy to reveal the location of the Zeo Crystal, which he'd figured out, kills him, and releases the others. The Rangers take Billy's body to the ship and ask Zordon to resurrect him. The Rangers agree they would give their lives for each other and resolve to defeat Rita. In doing so, they unlock the Morphing Grid. Zordon revives Billy, sacrificing being able to restore his physical self. With the team restored and confident, the Rangers morph into their armor.

text: Rita creates Goldar, raises an army of Putties, and attacks Angel Grove to find the Zeo Crystal. The Rangers battle the Putties and head to Angel Grove in their Zords. After the Rangers destroy the Putties, Goldar pushes the Rangers and their Zords into a fiery pit. In the pit, the Zords combine and form the Megazord. Rita merges with Goldar. The Rangers battle and destroy Goldar. After refusing Jason's offer to surrender, a defiant Rita tells the Rangers that more will come for the crystal and leaps at the Megazord only to be slapped into space. The Rangers are praised as local heroes, and with Rita's threats foiled, they return to their normal lives while keeping their powers.

text: In a mid-credits scene, in detention, the teacher announces that Tommy Oliver will be joining them, but the desk is empty save for a green jacket.[note 1]

text: Characters[edit]

text:
Dacre Montgomery as Jason Scott / Red Ranger, the leader of the Power Rangers. Jason was the former star quarterback of Angel Grove High School's football team before a failed prank led to a run-in with the law.[10]
Naomi Scott as Kimberly Hart / Pink Ranger, a former cheerleader. Kimberly took part in a cyberbullying incident by spreading a private image of her friend around school.[11][12]
RJ Cyler as Billy Cranston / Blue Ranger, an autistic and intelligent loner. Billy is the classic nerd who has become a bully magnet.[5][13]
Becky G as Trini / Yellow Ranger, a new girl in town who is struggling make friends and having difficulty relating to her family. She is also questioning her sexual orientation.[5][6][14][15]
Ludi Lin as Zack / Black Ranger, a bilingual teen. Zack's mother is sick, and he lives in fear that he will return home one day to find her dead.[16][17]
Bill Hader as the voice of Alpha 5: The robot assistant to Zordon.[18][19]
Bryan Cranston as the voice of Zordon: He is the Power Rangers' mentor and former Red Ranger. Zordon lived millions of years ago before his consciousness became a part of the Morphing Grid at the time of his death.[18][20]
Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa:[18][21] a millions of years old, former Green Ranger who went rogue and killed her old team before being temporarily subdued by Zordon. She works to form the monster Goldar while attempting to steal the Zeo Crystal, an artifact that channels the Morphing Grid, a dimension that gives the Power Rangers their powers.[18]
David Denman as Sam Scott, Jason's father.[22]
Caroline Cave as Beverly Scott, Jason's mother.
Anjali Jay as Maddy Hart, Kimberly's mother.[23]
Patrick Sabongui as Trini's father.[24][25]
Erica Cerra as Trini's mother.
Kayden Magnuson as Pearl Scott, Jason's sister.
Fiona Fu as Zack's mother.
Sarah Grey as Amanda Clark[26][27]
Emily Maddison as Rebecca[28][29][30]
Wesley MacInnes as Colt Wallace, a school bully who is constantly picking on Billy.
Jaime Callica as Officer Bebe[31]
Matt Shively as Damo
Garry Chalk as Captain Bowen
Fred Tatasciore as the voice of Goldar, a gigantic winged monster made of gold.
Tatasciore also provides the vocal effects of the Putties who are depicted as stone golems that can be made from any Earth element.

text: Jason David Frank and Amy Jo Johnson, two of the stars of the original TV series, make cameo appearances as Angel Grove citizens.[32]

text: Production[edit]

text: Development[edit]

text: Saban Capital Group and Lionsgate announced the film in May 2014,[33] with Roberto Orci originally attached to produce. Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz were hired to write the film's script.[34] Orci eventually left the project to work on Star Trek Beyond.[35] On April 10, 2015, TheWrap reported that Dean Israelite was in negotiations to direct the film.[36] Israelite told IGN in an interview that the film would be "completely playful, and it needs to be really fun and funny. But like Project Almanac, it's going to feel very grounded at the same time, and very contemporary and have a real edge to it, and a real gut to it, it's going to be a fun, joyful [movie] but one that feels completely grounded in a real world, with real characters going through real things".[37] Brian Tyler was brought on to compose the film's music.[38] Israelite has said that the film updates itself from the original series, being more character-driven and incorporating naturalism and a grounded nature.[39]

text: Casting[edit]

text: Actors began testing for the roles of the five Power Rangers on October 2, 2015.[40] On October 7, 2015, Naomi Scott was cast as Kimberly.[11] Newcomers Dacre Montgomery, Ludi Lin and RJ Cyler were then cast as Jason,[10] Zack,[16] and Billy, respectively.[13] At the month's end, Becky G was chosen to play Trini.[14] When it came to casting the Rangers, director Dean Israelite said, "From the very beginning, diversity was a very important part of the whole process," and that while the characters' races were switched around, he added that, "We made sure that the essence of each of those characters are who they were in the original show, and this really will be an origin story of those characters."[41] On February 2, 2016, it was announced that Elizabeth Banks would portray Rita Repulsa.[21] Four months later, Bryan Cranston, who voiced Twin Man and Snizard in the original series, announced he was cast as Zordon.[20][42] Cranston revealed that he would perform motion-capture and CGI.[42][43] In September 2016, Walter Emanuel Jones, the actor who played Zack in the original series, stated none of the original cast would cameo in the film.[44] Towards the end of the month, comedian Bill Hader was cast as Alpha 5.[19] In March 2017, it was reported that Amy Jo Johnson and Jason David Frank, who played Kimberly and Tommy in the original series, would cameo in the film, despite Jones' earlier comments.[32]

text: Filming[edit]

text: Filming was originally set to begin in January 2016[45] but was rescheduled and began on February 29 in Vancouver.[46][47] On May 28, 2016, filming was complete.[48][49] Additional filming occurred in October 2016.[50][51] A cast member claims that the film has broken the record for the longest wire jump, but this has not been independently confirmed.[52]

text: The film was released in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound.[53]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: On March 3, 2016, Lionsgate released the first official photo of the five Rangers,[41] and the following month, the company released the first official photo of Banks as Rita Repulsa.[21] On May 5, the company unveiled the first official images of the Rangers' suits. Speaking of the suits, director Dean Israelite said that "The show was about kids coming of age, about metamorphosis, these suits needed to feel like they were catalyzed by these kids and their energy, their spirit", while production designer Andrew Menzies commented that the new suits are "an alien costume that grows on them, that’s not man-made. You can’t win everyone over, but we are trying to appeal to a more mature audience and gain new fans."[54] A teaser poster was released in June,[55] with additional character posters released in July, September, and October.[56][57][58] On October 8, 2016, a Discover The Power teaser trailer for the film was released.[59][60][61]

text: A fictional Angel Grove High School Newspaper website was created,[62] alongside the official Power Rangers website, which features a GIF creator that allows users to make a GIF out of scenes from the teaser trailer.[63][64] There is also an official toyline, produced by Bandai,[65] and an extensive merchandising range was produced to promote the film.[66]

text: Max Landis, who was fired from writing the film, criticized the trailer, saying that it looked like Chronicle, a film that he had written.[67] The trailer garnered mixed reactions, with some praising it for its darker, contemporary reimagining of the classic characters, while still looking action-packed and fun at the same time,[68][69] and others criticizing it for its lack of connection to the original series, saying it appeared "brooding".[70] The trailer received over 150 million views in the first two days after it was uploaded.[71] Lionsgate revealed the T-Rex zord toy, among others, on October 28, 2016,[72] and the Power Rangers Twitter account revealed the Megazord toy on November 4, 2016.[73] On November 15, 2016, Lionsgate revealed the toys based on the film's individual Zords.[74]

text: On December 8, 2016, a new poster debuted, as well as a photo of Rita Repulsa.[75][76] On December 19, 2016, Lionsgate and Boom! Studios announced that they would release a graphic novel titled Power Rangers: Aftershock, set immediately after the events of the movie.[77] An international trailer was released on December 22, 2016.[78][79][80] Qualcomm and Lionsgate produced a virtual reality mobile app of the film Power Rangers Movie Command Center that was exhibited at the CES 2017, from January 5–8, 2017,[81] and was released in the App Store on March 8, 2017.[82] On January 19, a second trailer, titled It’s Morphin Time!, was released.[83][84][85] Lionsgate debuted yet another trailer, which it called the All-Star Trailer, on February 17.[86][87][88] New TV spots were released on February 27, two about the Power Rangers,[89] and one about Rita Repulsa.[90] A clip was released on March 6, followed by two more on March 9.[91][92][93] Thirty-seven stills were then released.[94] Another TV spot was released on March 10.[95] In the final week before the movie premiered, two more clips, as well as photos, were released.[96]

text: A Build-A-Bear Workshop Power Ranger product range was announced on March 9, 2017.[97] Krispy Kreme released doughnuts to promote the film,[98] and served as an advertising partner.[99] Placement of Krispy Kreme products and locations were featured in the film numerous times.[100]

text: The group collaborated with YouTube sports entertainment group Dude Perfect ahead of the film's release, in a video titled Dude Perfect vs. Power Rangers.[99]

text: Video game[edit]

text: Lionsgate and Saban, in collaboration with nWay Games, released a PvP fighting mobile game called Power Rangers: Legacy Wars on March 24, 2017, to coincide with the film's release.[101] The game was featured on both Android and the Apple Store[102] and got to the top spot on the Apple App Store for both iPhones and iPads,[103] for two consecutive days and number two on the Google Play Store.[102]

text: Music[edit]

text: The official soundtrack, with music by Brian Tyler, was released digitally on March 24, 2017, and on CD on April 4, distributed by Varèse Sarabande.[104][105]

text:
Power Rangers (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack album by Brian Tyler

Released
March 24, 2017

Genre
Film score

Length
77:35

Label
Varèse Sarabande

text: All music composed by Brian Tyler.

text:
Power Rangers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

No.
Title
Length

1.
"Power Rangers Theme"
4:22

2.
"Seek Those Who Are Worthy"
2:48

3.
"Zordon Awakes"
2:13

4.
"It's Morphing Time!"
3:19

5.
"Destiny"
2:18

6.
"Confessions"
4:22

7.
"Megazord"
4:20

8.
"United"
2:46

9.
"Birth of a Legend"
4:10

10.
"Metamorphosis"
2:39

11.
"Goldar"
2:01

12.
"The Morphing Grid"
3:58

13.
"The Zords"
2:33

14.
"Let's Ride"
2:19

15.
"You Were Born for This"
2:03

16.
"Reflection"
2:13

17.
"The Lost Ship"
2:59

18.
"Be Who You Want to Be"
2:06

19.
"Hold The Line"
3:36

20.
"This Is What Matters"
2:04

21.
"Trespassing"
1:03

22.
"Rita"
2:28

23.
"Square One"
1:11

24.
"Power On"
2:33

25.
"Together We Stand"
2:19

26.
"The Final Stand"
2:45

27.
"Go Go Power Rangers – End Titles"
2:59

28.
"Give It All (With You)" (Featuring Santigold and Vince Staples)
3:14

text: Release[edit]

text: Originally scheduled for release on July 22, 2016,[106] Lionsgate delayed it to March 24, 2017.[107] All five of the surviving members of the original cast of the Power Rangers series attended the film's Los Angeles premiere on March 22, 2017.[108] It was the first time they had been together publicly since 1995.[109]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Power Rangers grossed $85.4 million in the United States and Canada and $57 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $142.3 million, against a production budget of $100 million.[3]

text: In the United States and Canada, Power Rangers opened alongside Life, CHiPs and Wilson, and was projected to gross $30–35 million from 3,693 theaters on its opening weekend.[110] The film made $3.6 million from Thursday night previews and $15 million on its first day.[111] It went on to debut to $40.3 million, finishing second at the box office behind Beauty and the Beast ($90.4 million).[112][113] The audience was notably diverse and mostly 18–34 years old.[114] In its second weekend the film grossed $14.5 million (a drop of 64%), finishing 4th at the box office.[115][116][117] In June 2017, Dean Israelite said that the film's PG-13 rating probably contributed to the film's underperformance at the box office.[118]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Power Rangers received mixed reviews from critics.[119][120][121] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 44% based on 136 reviews, and an average rating of 5.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Power Rangers has neither the campy fun of its TV predecessor nor the blockbuster action of its cinematic superhero competitors, and sadly never quite manages to shift into turbo for some good old-fashioned morphin time."[122] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score 44 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[123] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[124]

text: IGN gave the film a 7/10, saying, "Power Rangers doesn’t quite pull off everything it wants to, but it’s a fun time at the theater nonetheless."[125] Mike McCahill of The Guardian wrote that "the film achieves a functioning mediocrity we perhaps might have thought beyond this franchise," and gave it 2 out of 5 stars.[126]

text: Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film a negative review, writing: "Power Rangers has one of the most zig-zagged tones of any big budget studio film I’ve seen in a long time. It’s jarring at times how often it goes back and forth between 'gritty' and 'silly'."[127] Writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman also criticized the film's conflicting tones, saying: "...25 years ago, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was launched as superhero fodder for kids, and there was indeed a place for it, but we’re now so awash in superhero culture that kids no longer need the safe, lame, pandering junior-league version of it. They can just watch Ant-Man or the PG-13 Suicide Squad. Safe, lame, and pandering have all grown up."[128] In a review for The Telegraph, Robbie Collin gave it 1/5 stars, criticizing the "abjectly embarrassing frenzy of product placement".[129]

text: Home media[edit]

text: Power Rangers was released on Digital HD on June 13, 2017, and was followed by a release on Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on June 27, 2017[130] with retail exclusive variants being made available at Best Buy,[131] Target and Wal-Mart. The film debuted at the No. 1 spot on the NPD VideoScan overall disc sales chart, which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales; NPD’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart; and Home Media Magazine’s video rental chart for the week ending July 2, 2017.[132] The film retained the top spot on the NPD VideoScan’s overall disc sales chart for the week ending on July 9, 2017.[133]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipients
Result
Ref(s)

Teen Choice Awards
August 13, 2017
Choice Sci-Fi Movie
Power Rangers
Nominated
[134]

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor
Dacre Montgomery

Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress
Becky G.

Naomi Scott

Choice Scene Stealer
RJ Cyler

Choice Movie Villain
Elizabeth Banks

text: Potential sequels[edit]

text: In a May 2016 conference call to analysts, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer stated, "We could see doing five or six or seven."[135][136] On March 22, 2017, Haim Saban said that he and Lionsgate already have a six-film story arc.[137] However in May 2017, Forbes noted that due to the underwhelming performance of the film in most markets, it was unlikely any sequels would be made.[7] Later that same month, it was reported that the sequels could still be made thanks to record-breaking merchandise sales.[138] Prior to the home release of the movie, Israelite confirmed that talks were taking place regarding a sequel[139] and that he would like to include Lord Zedd in it.[140] The possibility of a sequel increased once more in early July 2017 when it was reported that the film held the number one spot in home media sales and rentals in its first week.[141]

text: Notes[edit]

text: Jump up ^ In the source material, Tommy Oliver was a male, but the cast of the film and the actor who played Oliver in the source material expressed interest in a female version of the character in a sequel.[8][9]


document_title: List of Thomas & Friends voice actors

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text: List of Thomas & Friends voice actors

text: Cast[edit]

text: Voices[edit]

text:
Actor/Actress
Region
Role(s)
Notes

Joseph May
US
Thomas
"The Adventure Begins" onwards

John Hasler
UK

US/UK
Rheneas (series 20 onwards)[1]

David Bedella
Victor, Carlos, The Mayor of Sodor and the Cuban man

Jamie Campbell Bower
Skiff

Jonathan Broadbent
Bill, Ben and The First Slip Coach

Nathan Clarke
Alfie

Olivia Colman
Marion

Jules de Jongh
US
Emily, Mavis (Season 13–16), Lady Hatt, The Duchess of Boxford, Stephen Hatt ("Diesel's Special Delivery"), Bridget Hatt, Bridget Hatt's Friends, Some Children, Little Boy in White and Light Blue Stripes Shirt and Red Shorts, The School Children, Teacher, The Laundry Lady, Little Girl in the Red Dress, The Ginger Haired Boy ("Pouty James"), The Blonde Haired Boy (Season 15 and Season 18), and The Blonde Haired Girl

US/UK
Emily ("4-D: Bubbling Boilers" and the singing voice for "The Great Race" only), Caitlin ("Engine of the Future" only), and Alicia Botti

Jonathan Forbes
Connor

Teresa Gallagher
UK
Emily, Lady Hatt (Season 13, "Day of the Diesels" and Season 15), Mavis (Season 13–16), The Duchess of Boxford, Stephen Hatt ("Diesel's Special Delivery"), Bridget Hatt, Bridget Hatt's friends, the teacher, the laundry lady, little boy in light white and light blue stripes shirt and red shorts, some children, the school children, little girl in the red dress, the blonde-hair girl, and the blonde-hair boy

US
A blond-haired girl

A blonde-haired boy
"Very Important Sheep" only

UK/US
Belle, Frieda, Gina, Mavis, Annie, Clarabel, Judy, The Duchess of Boxford ("Percy's Lucky Day" only), Lady Hatt ("The Afternoon Tea Express" only and Season 21 onwards), the teacher (Season 18 only), the ginger-hair boy, the shouting little boy, the lady with the big hat, some passengers, the Knapford Station speaker ("The Adventure Begins"), some children ("The Adventure Begins" onwards), the school children ("Lost Property"), Stephen Hatt, Bridget Hatt, the lady in the blue dress, the barrow fan ("Reds vs. Blues" and "Useful Railway"), Albert's wife ("Thomas the Babysitter" and "Unscheduled Stops"), the lady in the spring green dress, the female puppet show entertainer, little girl in the turquoise dress with pink flowers, the lady in the white dress and gray vest, the lady in the white shirt, light brown skirt and hat, the lady in the grayish white shirt, blackish gray skirt, and white pearl necklace, the chubby little boy in dark green shirt and dark gray shorts and the lady in the yellow dress and hat

Bob Golding
Stephen, Sidney (series 17 onwards), Ivan, some dock workers ("Tale of the Brave") and a railway inspector ("Lost Property")

Mike Grady
Sir Robert Norramby

Rasmus Hardiker
Philip and some Troublesome Trucks ("The Fastest Red Engine on Sodor" only)

UK
Monty

William Hope
US
Edward, Toby, Stephen Hatt ("Thomas and the Runaway Kite" only), Whiff, Bash, Rocky, Farmer McColl, the Duke of Boxford, the blond-haired boy ("Merry Misty Island" and "The Way She Does It" only), the Maithwaite stationmaster ("Double Trouble" and "Wonky Whistle" only), the man at the fire ("Race to the Rescue"), the Dock Manager and the Wellsworth Station worker

UK/US
Iron Bert (series 16 onwards), a railway inspector, a steamworks worker ("Wonky Whistle"), 2 farmhands ("Wonky Whistle"), a workman ("Toad and the Whale"), Passenger, and Farmer McColl ("Philip's Number" only)

Togo Igawa
Hiro

Rufus Jones
Flying Scotsman

Ashna Kapur
UK
The blond-haired girl
"Very Important Sheep" only

Steven Kynman
Porter, Jack and the dock manager ("Tale of the Brave" only)

US
Charlie
"The Great Race" onwards

Butch
Series 17 onwards

UK/US
Duck, Ryan (series 20 onwards), Dart (Season 17 onwards), Paxton ("Blue Mountain Mystery" onwards), Peter Sam, "The Third Slip Coach", a workman (Journey Beyond Sodor), a railway inspector (Season 17) and the bird watcher ("Who's Geoffrey?")

Michael Legge
Luke

Dan Li
UK/US
Yong Bao
(Big World! Big Adventures!-onwards)

Oliver McCue
UK
The blond-haired boy
"Very Important Sheep" only

Ian McCue
UK/US
The Blue Sea Serpent

David Menkin
Porter (US; series 17 onwards/UK; "Pouty James" and "Cranky at the End of the Line" only) and Stanley ("The Truth About Toby" only)

US
Jack

Joe Mills
UK/US
Douglas, Oliver, Toad, the Welsh bird watcher ("Thomas and the Emergency Cable"), and a Knapford Station yard workman ("Toad and the Whale")

Lucy Montgomery
Lexi, Hannah and Carly

Tracy-Ann Oberman[2]
Daisy
Series 20 onwards

Maggie Ollerenshaw
Henrietta

Rebecca O'Mara
Caitlin and the Second Slip Coach

Nigel Pilkington
UK
Percy (Series 19 onwards; excluding "Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure"), and Trevor

UK/US
A passenger

Rob Rackstraw
James (US; "The Adventure Begins" onwards/UK; "Tit for Tat" onwards), Donald (Season 20 onwards), Raul, Axel, Étienne, Flynn (Season 19 onwards), Bradford, The Great Railway Show announcer, some passengers, the man in the blue shirt and light brown hat, The Bird Watcher ("The Railcar and the Coaches"), Fergus Duncan, The Welsh Bird Watcher ("Mike's Whistle"), The Thin Clergyman ("Tit for Tat"), and The Red Sea Serpent

UK
Toby
Season 19 onwards

US
Monty

Christopher Ragland[3]
Percy (Season 19 onwards) and Trevor

US/UK
The Troublesome Trucks ("The Adventure Begins" onwards)

Miranda Raison
Millie and the Knapford Station speaker

Kerry Shale
UK
Thomas and Spencer
"Hero of the Rails", originally

US
Henry, Gordon, Dash, Scruff, Harold, Max, Kevin, Sir Topham Hatt ("Hero of the Rails" – Season 18), Sir Lowham Hatt, Mr. Percival, Farmer Trotter, The Maithwaite stationmaster ("Time For a Story" and "A Blooming Mess"), a railway inspector, the photographer (Season 16), the railroad coal inspector, the zoo keeper and some workmen

UK/US
Kevin ("Hasty Hannah" only), Diesel (US; series 19 onwards/UK; series 13 onwards), 'Arry, some groaning passengers ("Calm Down Caitlin") and the man on the bridge

John Schwab
Vinnie, Ulli and a Bridlington Diesel

US
Stanley
Series 20 onwards, excluding "Saving Time"[4]

Nicola Stapleton
UK/US
Rosie
Season 21 onwards

Tom Stourton
Duncan, Rex, Terence and The Fat Clergyman

Tim Whitnall
Timothy, Mike, Jerome, Oliver the Excavator, Reg, the deputy minister and some workmen

US
The man in the hat
"Spencer's VIP" only

UK
Max

Keith Wickham
Edward, Henry, Gordon, Whiff, Dash, Harold, The Thin Controller, the railway coal inspector, the man at the fire, the Wellsworth station worker, The Man in the Gray Shirt and Black Pants, the Fat Controller's assistant, some workmen, some passengers, Gator's driver, and steamworks workman

UK/US
Harvey, Glynn, Salty, Den, Norman, Stafford, Skarloey, Sir Handel, Arlesdale Bert, Bertie, Captain, Sir Topham Hatt/The Fat Controller (UK; "Hero of the Rails" onwards/US; "The Adventure Begins" onwards), Dowager Hatt, Sir Lowham Hatt, Lord Callan, the photographer ("Wild Water Rescue"), a railway inspector, the great composer, the Maron station speaker, the Wellsworth stationmaster,  Thomas' guard, the grumpy passenger, Father Christmas, the groundsman, the postman, Gordon's driver ("The Adventure Begins"), James' guard ("The Adventure Begins"), a Knapford station worker ("The Adventure Begins"), some workmen, sometsignalmen, the dock manager ("Who's Geoffrey?" only), a Sodor search & rescue centre worker ("Toad and the Whale"), a policeman ("Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure"), a diver ("Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure"), The Man in the Hat, some passengers, Albert ("Thomas the Babysitter"), Mr. Bubbles, the man in the sea green shirt and glasses, the Welsh bird watcher ("Sidney Sings and Three Steam Engines Gruff"), one of Dowager Hatt's friends ("Best Engine Ever" and "Sidney Sings"), the museum manager, male puppet show entertainer, the man in the gray shirt and black pants, the Great Railway Show judge, the fat clergyman, the man in the blackish gray shirt and blackish gray pants, Willie the lazy farmer, the man in the black shirt and black pants, Franz, The Man in the Whitish Brown Shirt and Brown Pants, and The Station Announcer

Robert Wilfort
Samson and the Great Railway Show judge ("The Great Race")

Matt Wilkinson
UK
Spencer, Stanley, Charlie, Bash, Scruff, Rocky, Cranky, Butch (Season 16 onwards), Kevin, Stephen Hatt ("Thomas and the Runaway Kite"), Farmer McColl, the Duke of Boxford, the photographer (series 16), the Maithwaite stationmaster, Farmer Trotter, the Knapford stationmaster, the bird watcher ("Henry's Good Deeds"), the blond-haired boy ("Merry Misty Island"), the dock manager, a railway inspector, some dock workers, the island inspector, the Sodor search & rescue centre manager, the Blue Mountain Quarry workman, the zoo keeper and the man with the hat

UK/US
Diesel 10, Winston, Rusty, Merrick, Captain Joe and some workmen

Glenn Wrage
US
Spencer, Ferdinand, Cranky, the Sodor search & rescue centre manager, Sir Topham Hatt's Assistant, Gator's driver and a Steamworks worker

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text: Former voices[edit]

text:
Actor/Actress
Region
Role(s)
Notes

Rupert Degas
UK
Butch
Series 15

UK/US
Dart and Flynn
"Day of the Diesels" – Season 16

Bertie
Season 15 and 16 only

Michael Brandon
US
Mr. Bubbles
Season 13–15

Diesel
Season 13–16

Martin Sherman
"King of the Railway" – Series 18

Thomas and Percy
"Hero of the Rails" – Season 18

Henry
Originally

The Bird Watcher
Henry's Good Deeds only

Some children
Time for a Story, Pop Goes Thomas and Toby and Bash only

Ben Small
Stanley
Season 15 only

Charlie
Season 16–18

UK
Thomas and Toby
"Hero of the Rails" – Season 18

Ferdinand
"Misty Island Rescue" – Season 16

UK/US
Rheneas
Season 16–18

Troublesome Truck

Flynn
Season 17 only

Owen
"Blue Mountain Mystery" – Season 18

text: Guest voices[edit]

text:
Actor/Actress
Role(s)
Notes

Clive Mantle
Gator
"Tale of the Brave" and Series 18 only

Sir John Hurt
Sailor John
"Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure" only

Eddie Redmayne
Ryan

Tina Desai
Ashima

Hugh Bonneville
Merlin

Darren Boyd
Theo

Jim Howick
Hurricane

Sophie Colquhoun
Frankie

Colin McFarlane
Bulgy and Beresford

text: Online videos[edit]

text:
Actor/Actress
Role(s)

Sabrina Frederick-Traub
Tracy

Matthew Richardson
Shane

text: Thomas and the Magic Railroad voices[edit]

text:
Actor/Actress
Role(s)
Notes

Eddie Glen
Thomas

John Bellis
Originally

Keith Scott
Diesel 10

Neil Crone
Gordon, Diesel 10 and Splatter

A tumbleweed
Uncredited

Troublesome Trucks
Originally had lines but removed

Kevin Frank

Henry, Dodge and Bertie

Harold
Originally had no lines

Britt Allcroft
Lady

Patrick Breen
Splatter and Dodge (Splodge)
Originally

Susan Roman
James

Michael Angelis
Originally

Percy

Linda Ballantyne

Colm Feore
Toby

Shelley-Elizabeth Skinner
Annie and Clarabel

text: Narrators[edit]

text: Current[edit]

text:
Actor
Region
Years
Period

John Hasler
UK
2018–present
Season 22–present

Joseph May
US

text: Former[edit]

text:
Actor
Region
Years
Period

Ringo Starr
UK/US
UK: 1984–86US: 1989–90
Season 1 and 2

Michael Angelis
UK: 1991–2012US: 2002–04
Season 3–16

Alec Baldwin
US: 1998–20032000
Season 5 and 6 / Thomas and the Magic Railroad

Mark Moraghan
2013–17
Season 17–21 / re-dubbed 5 episodes of Season 13–15 in the US

George Carlin
US
1991–96
Season 3 and 4 / re-dubbed Season 1 and 2

Michael Brandon
2003–12
Season 7–16 / re-dubbed 6 episodes from the 6th season

text: Guest[edit]

text:
Actor/Actress
Years
Period

Mara Wilson
2000
original script of Thomas and the Magic Railroad

Gwyneth Paltrow
2008
original script of The Great Discvoery

Pierce Brosnan
The Great Discovery / original cut of season 12

text: Timeline[edit]

text: Seasons[edit]

text:
Narrator(s)
Classic Series1984–2003
New Series2004–08
CGI Series2010–present

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22

Ringo Starr

Michael Angelis

UK
UK
United Kingdom

US

George Carlin
US

US

Alec Baldwin

US

Michael Brandon

US
United States

Pierce Brosnan

*
*

Mark Moraghan

US

John Hasler

UK

Joseph May

US

text: Specials[edit]

text:
Narrator(s)
Model era
CGI era

TatMR2000
CAE!2005
TGD2008
HotR2009
MIR2010
DotD2011
BMM2012
KotR2013
TotB2014
TAB2015
SLotLT2015
TGR2016
JBS2017

Mara Wilson
Lily

Alec Baldwin
Mr. C

Michael Angelis

UK

United Kingdom

Michael Brandon

US

United States

Gwyneth Paltrow

Pierce Brosnan

Mark Moraghan

text:
A light green cell indicates the narrator who officially narrated the series.
An orange cell indicates the narrator who re-narrated the series.
A red cell indicates the original narrator who narrated the series, including the movies.

tag: ul

text: * Pierce Brosnan narrated the original cut of Series 12, but withdrew from the series, and his narrations left unreleased.

tag: p

text: Characters[edit]

text: CGI Series[edit]

text:
Characters
HiT Era
Mattel Era

13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22

Thomas
Ben Small (UK)Martin Sherman (US)
John Hasler (UK)Joseph May (US)

Edward
Keith Wickham (UK)William Hope (US)

Henry
Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)Martin Sherman (original US voice)
Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)

Gordon
Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)

James
Keith Wickham (UK)
Rob Rackstraw

Kerry Shale (US)
Rob Rackstraw (US)

Percy
Keith Wickham (UK)Martin Sherman (US)
Nigel Pilkington (UK)Christopher Ragland (US)

Toby
Ben Small (UK)
Rob Rackstraw (UK)

William Hope (US)

Duck

Steven Kynman
Cameo
Steven Kynman

Donald

Rob Rackstraw

Douglas

Joe Mills

Oliver

Joe Mills

Bill and Ben

Jonathan Broadbent

Cameo

Emily
Teresa Gallagher (UK)Jules de Jongh (US)

Diesel
Kerry Shale (UK)
Kerry Shale

Michael Brandon (US)
Martin Sherman (US)

Mavis
Teresa Gallagher (UK)
Teresa Gallagher
Cameo
Teresa Gallagher

Jules de Jongh (US)

'Arry

Kerry Shale
Kerry Shale

Cameo
Cameo
Kerry Shale

Iron Bert
William Hope

William Hope

Skarleoy

Keith Wickham

Cameo
Keith Wickham

Rheneas

Ben Small

John Hasler
Cameo

Sir Handel

Originally
Keith Wickham

Keith Wickham

Peter Sam

Steven Kynman

Steven Kynman

Rusty

Matt Wilkinson

Duncan

Tom Stourton

Tom Stourton

Annie and Clarabel
Non-speaking role
Cameo
Non-speaking role
Teresa Gallagher

Henrietta
Non-speaking role
Cameo
Maggie Ollerenshaw

Toad

Joe Mills

Bertie
Non-speaking role
Rupert Degas
Keith Wickham

Harold

Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)
Non-speaking role
Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)
Non-speaking role
Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)

Cranky
Matt Wilkinson (UK)Glenn Wrage (US)

Sir Topham Hatt
Keith Wickham (UK)
Keith Wickham

Kerry Shale (US)

text: Movies[edit]

text:
Characters
TatMR
HotR
MIR
DotD
BMM
KotR
TotB
TAB
SLotLT
TGR
JBS
BW! BA!

Thomas
Eddie GlenJohn Bellis (originally)
Martin Sherman (US)Ben Small (UK)Kerry Shale (original UK voice)
Ben Small (UK)Martin Sherman (US)
John Hasler (UK)Joseph May (US)

Edward

Keith Wickham (UK)William Hope (US)

Henry
Kevin Frank
Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)

Gordon
Neil Crone
Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)
Cameo
Keith Wickham (UK)Kerry Shale (US)

James
Susan RomanMichael Angelis (originally)
Keith Wickham (UK)
Rob Rackstraw

Kerry Shale (US)
Rob Rackstraw (US)

Percy
Linda BallantyneMichael Angelis (originally)
Keith Wickham (UK)Martin Sherman (US)

Keith Wickham (UK)Christopher Ragland (US)
Christopher Ragland (US speaking voice / UK singing voice)Nigel Pilkington (UK)
Nigel Pilkington (UK)Christopher Ragland (US)

Toby
Colm Feore
Ben Small (UK)William Hope (US)

Rob Rackstraw (UK)William Hope (US)
Cameo
Rob Rackstraw (UK)William Hope (US)

Duck

Non-speaking role

Steven Kynman
Cameo

Donald and Douglas

Joe Mills

Oliver

Cameo

Bill
Jonathan Broadbent
Jonathan Broadbent
Cameo
Jonathan Broadbent

Ben
Matt Wilkinson

Emily

Teresa Gallagher (UK)Jules de Jongh (US)
Teresa Gallagher (UK)Jules de Jongh (US)
Jules de Jongh (US speaking voice / UK singing voice)Teresa Gallagher (UK)
Teresa Gallagher (UK)Jules de Jongh (US)

Diesel
Cameo
Kerry Shale (UK)

Cameo
Kerry Shale
Cameo

Michael Brandon (US)
Martin Sherman (US)

Annie and Clarabel
Shelley-Elizabeth Skinner

Teresa Gallagher

Sir Topham Hatt
Seen on posters
Keith Wickham (UK)
Keith Wickham

Kerry Shale (US)


document_title: Education in France

question_text: when does the school year start in paris

text: Education in France

text: History[edit]

text: This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

text: While the French trace the development of their educational system to Napoleon, the modern era of French education begins at the end of the nineteenth century. Jules Ferry, a Minister of Public Instruction in the 1880s, is widely credited for creating the modern school (l'école républicaine) by requiring all children between the ages of 6 and 12, both boys and girls, to attend. He also made public instruction mandatory, free of charge, and secular (laïque). With these laws, known as French Lubbers, Jules Ferry laws, and several others, the Third Republic repealed most of the Falloux Laws of 1850–1851, which gave an important role to the clergy.

text: Governance[edit]

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text: All educational programmes in France are regulated by the Ministry of National Education (officially called Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de la Jeunesse et de la Vie associative). The head of the ministry is the Minister of National Education.

text: The teachers in public primary and secondary schools are all state civil servants, making the ministère the largest employer in the country. Professors and researchers in France's universities are also employed by the state.

text:
Zone
Académies/Cites

A
Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers

B
Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg

C
Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Versailles

text: At the primary and secondary levels, the curriculum is the same for all French students in any given grade, which includes public, semi-public and subsidised institutions. However, there exist specialised sections and a variety of options that students can choose. The reference for all French educators is the Bulletin officiel de l'éducation nationale, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (B.O.) which lists all current programmes and teaching directives. It is amended many times every year.[1]

text: School year[edit]

text: In Metropolitan France, the school year runs from early September to early July. The school calendar is standardised throughout the country and is the sole domain of the ministry.

text: In May, schools need time to organise exams (for example, the baccalauréat). Outside Metropolitan France, the school calendar is set by the local recteur.

text: Major holiday breaks are as follows:

text:
All Saints (la Toussaint), two weeks (since 2012) around the end of October and the beginning of November;
Christmas (Noël), two weeks around Christmas Day and New Year's Day;
winter (hiver), two weeks starting in mid February;
spring (printemps) or Easter (Pâques), two weeks starting in mid April;
summer (été), two months starting in early July. (mid-June for high school students).

text: Primary school[edit]

text: Schooling in France is not mandatory (but instruction[2] is). Most parents start sending their children to preschool (maternelle) when they turn 3. Some even start earlier at age 2 in toute petite section "TPS". The first two years of preschool (TPS and petite section "PS") are introductions to community living, children learn how to become students and are introduced to their firsts notions of arithmetics, recognizing scripture, developping oral language, etc. The last two years of prschool, moyenne section and grande section are more school-like ; pupils are introduced to reading, writing and more mathematics.

text: Preschool can have their own school zone (mostly true in towns) or be affiliated to an elementary school (mostly in villages). Much akin to other educational systems, French primary school students usually have a single teacher (or two) who teaches the complete curriculum.

text: After kindergarten, the young students move on to the école élémentaire (elementary school). In the first 3 years of elementary school, they will learn to write and develop their reading skills, do basic math and science. such as French, mathematics, science and arts to name a few. Note that the French word for a teacher at the primary school level is professeur or professeure des écoles (previously called instituteur, or its feminine form institutrice).

text: Children stay in elementary school for 5 years until they are 10–11 years-old. The grades are named : CP (cours préparatoire), CE1 (cours élémentaire 1), CE2 (cours élémentaire 2), CM1 (cours moyen 1) and CM2 (cours moyen 2). [3]

text: Middle school and high school[edit]

text: After primary school, two educational stages follow:

text:
collèges (middle school), which cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
lycées (high school), which provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between the ages of 15 and 18. Pupils are prepared for the baccalauréat (baccalaureate, colloquially known as le bac) or the CAP (certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle). The baccalauréat can lead to higher education studies or directly to professional life.
CFAs (centre de formation des apprentis, apprentice learning center), which provide vocational degrees : le Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle.

text: International education[edit]

text: As of January 2015, the International Schools Consultancy (ISC)[4] listed France as having 105 international schools.[5] ISC defines an 'international school' in the following terms "ISC includes an international school if the school delivers a curriculum to any combination of pre-school, primary or secondary students, wholly or partly in English outside an English-speaking country, or if a school in a country where English is one of the official languages, offers an English-medium curriculum other than the country’s national curriculum and is international in its orientation."[5] This definition is used by publications including The Economist.[6]

text: France has its own international school regulator, the AEFE (Association de l'éducation Francaise a l'étranger).

text: Higher education[edit]

text: Higher education in France is organized in three levels, which correspond to those of other European countries, facilitating international mobility: the Licence and Licence Professionnelle (bachelor's degrees), and the Master's and Doctorat degrees.[citation needed] The Licence and the Master are organized in semesters: 6 for the Licence and 4 for the Master.[7][8] These levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d’Enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS); a student accumulates these credits, which are generally transferable between paths.[citation needed] A Licence is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained; a Master is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained.[7][8]

text: Licence and master's degrees are offered within specific domaines and carry a specific mention. Spécialités which are either research-oriented or professionally oriented during the second year of the Master. There are also Professional Licences whose objective is immediate job integration. It is possible to later return to school through continuing education or to validate professional experience (through VAE, Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience[9]).

text: Higher education in France is divided between grandes écoles and public universities. The grandes écoles admit the graduates of the level Baccalauréat + 2 years of validated study (or sometimes directly after the Baccalauréat) whereas universities admit all graduates of the Baccalauréat.

text: A striking trait of French higher education, compared with other countries, is the small size and multiplicity of establishments, each specialised in a more-or-less broad spectrum of areas. A middle-sized French city, such as Grenoble or Nancy, may have 2 or 3 universities (focused on science or sociological studies) and also a number of engineering and other establishments specialised higher education. In Paris and its suburbs there are 13 universities, none of which is specialised in one area or another, and a large number of smaller institutions that are highly specialised.

text: It is not uncommon for graduate teaching programmes (master's degrees, the course part of PhD programmes etc.) to be operated in common by several institutions, allowing the institutions to present a larger variety of courses.

text: In engineering schools and the professional degrees of universities, a large share of the teaching staff is often made up of non-permanent professors; instead, part-time professors are hired to teach one only specific subject. The part-time professors are generally hired from neighbouring universities, research institutes or industries.

text: Another original feature of the French higher education system is that a large share of the scientific research is carried out by research establishments such as CNRS or INSERM, which are not formally part of the universities. However, in most cases, the research units of those establishments are located inside universities (or other higher education establishments) and jointly operated by the research establishment and the university.

text: Tuition costs[edit]

text: Since higher education is funded by the state, the fees are very low; the tuition varies from €150 to €700 depending on the university and the different levels of education. (licence, master, doctorate). One can therefore get a master's degree (in 5 years) for about €750-3,500. Additionally, students from low-income families can apply for scholarships, paying nominal sums for tuition or textbooks, and can receive a monthly stipend of up to €450 per month.

text: The tuition in public engineering schools is comparable to universities, albeit a little higher (around €700). However it can reach €7000 a year for private engineering schools, and some business schools, which are all private or partially private, charge up to €15000 a year.

text: Health insurance for students is free until the age of 20 so only the costs of living and books have to be added. After the age of 20, the health insurance for students costs €200 a year and cover most of the medical expenses.

text: Some public schools have other ways of gaining money. Some do not receive sufficient funds from the government for class trips and other extra activities and so these schools may ask for a small (optional) entrance fee for new students.

text: Universities in France[edit]

text: The public universities in France are named after the major cities near which they are located, followed by a numeral if there are several. Paris, for example, has thirteen universities, labelled Paris I to XIII. Some of these are not in Paris itself, but in the suburbs. In addition, most of the universities have taken a more informal name which is usually that of a famous person or a particular place. Sometimes, it is also a way to honor a famous alumnus, for example the science university in Strasbourg is known as "Université Louis Pasteur" while its official name is "Université Strasbourg I" (however, since 2009, the three universities of Strasbourg have been merged).

text: The French system has undergone a reform, the Bologna process, which aims at creating European standards for university studies, most notably a similar time-frame everywhere, with three years devoted to the bachelor's degree ("licence" in French), two for the Master's, and three for the doctorate. French universities have also adopted the ECTS credit system (for example, a licence is worth 180 credits). However the traditional curriculum based on end of semester examinations still remains in place in most universities. This double standard has added complexity to a system which also remains quite rigid. It is difficult to change a major during undergraduate studies without losing a semester or even a whole year. Students usually also have few course selection options once they enroll in a particular diploma.

text: France also hosts various branch colleges of foreign universities. These include Baruch College, the University of London Institute in Paris, Parsons Paris School of Art and Design and the American University of Paris.

text: Grandes écoles[edit]

text: The grandes écoles of France are elite higher-education establishments. They are generally focused on a single subject area (e.g., engineering or business), have a small size (typically between 100 and 300 graduates per year), and are highly selective. They are widely regarded as prestigious,[10][11] and most of France's scientists and executives have graduated from a grande école.

text: National rankings are published every year by various magazines.[12][13][14][15] While these rankings slightly vary from year to year, the top grandes écoles have been very stable for decades:

text:
science and engineering: Écoles Normales Supérieures, Ecole Polytechnique, Mines ParisTech, ISAE-Supaéro and CentraleSupélec;
humanities: three Écoles Normales Supérieures and Ecole des Chartes;
business: HEC Paris, ESSEC Business School, ESCP Europe, EMLyon, Audencia and EDHEC;[16]
administration and political sciences: ENA and Sciences Po.

text: Preparatory classes (CPGEs)[edit]

text: The Preparatory classes (in French "classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles" or CPGE), widely known as prépas, is a prep course with the main goal of training students for enrollment in a grande école. Admission to CPGEs is based on performance during the last two years of high school, called Première and Terminale. Only 5% of a generation is admitted to a prépa. CPGEs are usually located within high schools but pertain to tertiary education, which means that each student must have successfully passed their Baccalauréat (or equivalent) to be admitted in a CPGE. Each CPGE receives applications from hundreds of applicants worldwide[citation needed] every year in April and May, and selects students based on its own criteria. A few CPGEs, mainly the private ones (which account for 10% of CPGEs), also have an interview process or look at a student's involvement in the community.

text: The ratio of CPGE students who fail to enter any grande école is lower in scientific and business CPGEs than in humanities CPGEs.

text: Scientific CPGEs[edit]

text: The oldest CPGEs are the scientific ones, which can only be accessed by scientific Bacheliers. Scientific CPGE are called TSI ("Technology and Engineering Science"), MPSI ("Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Science"), PCSI ("Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering Science") or PTSI ("Physics, Technology, and Engineering Science") in the first year, MP ("Mathematics and Physics"), PSI ("Physics and Engineering Science"), PC ("Physics and Chemistry") or PT ("Physics and Technology") in the second year and BCPST ("Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Life and Earth Sciences").

text: First year CPGE students are called the "Math Sup"—or Hypotaupe—(Sup for "Classe de Mathématiques Supérieures", superior in French, meaning post-high school), and second years "Math Spé"—or Taupe—(Spés standing for "Classe de Mathématiques Spéciales", special in French). The students of these classes are called Taupins. Both the first and second year programmes include as much as twelve hours of mathematics teaching per week, ten hours of physics, two hours of philosophy, two to four hours of (one or two) foreign languages teaching and four to six hours of options: either chemistry, SI (Engineering Industrial Science) or Theoretical Computer Science (including some programming using the Pascal or CaML programming languages, as a practical work). With this is added several hours of homework, which can rise as much as the official hours of class. A known joke among those students is that they are becoming moles for two years, sometimes three. This is actually the origin of the nicknames taupe and taupin (taupe being the French word for a mole).

text: Business CPGEs[edit]

text: There are also CPGE which are focused on economics (who prepare the admission in business schools). These are known as "Prépa EC" (short for Economiques et Commerciales) and are divided into two parts : prépa ECS, which focuses more on mathematics, generally for those who graduated the scientific baccalaureat and prépa ECE, which focuses more on economics, for those who were in the economics section in high school.

text: Humanities CPGEs (Hypokhâgne and Khâgne)[edit]

text: The literary and humanities CPGEs have also their own nicknames, Hypokhâgne for the first year and Khâgne for the second year. The students are called the khâgneux. These classes prepare for schools such as the three Écoles Normales Supérieures, the Ecole des Chartes, and sometimes Sciences Po.

text: There are two kinds of Khâgnes. The Khâgne de Lettres is the most common, and focuses on philosophy, French literature, history and languages. The Khâgne de Lettres et Sciences Sociales (Literature and Social Sciences), otherwise called Khâgne B/L, also includes mathematics and socio-economic sciences in addition to those literary subjects.

text: The students of Hypokhâgne and Khâgne (the humanities CPGE) are simultaneously enrolled in universities, and can go back to university in case of failure or if they feel unable to pass the highly competitive entrance examinations for the Écoles Normales Supérieures.

text: Colles[edit]

text: The amount of work required of the students is exceptionally high. In addition to class time and homework, students spend several hours each week completing oral exams called colles (sometimes written 'khôlles' to look like a Greek word, this way of writing being initially a khâgneux's joke, since khâgneux study Ancient Greek). The colles are unique to French academic education in CPGEs.

text: In scientific and business CPGEs, colles consist of oral examinations twice a week, in French, foreign languages (usually English, German, or Spanish), maths, physics, philosophy, or geopolitics — depending on the type of CPGE. Students, usually in groups of three or four, spend an hour facing a professor alone in a room, answering questions and solving problems.

text: In humanities CPGEs, colles are usually taken every quarter in every subject. Students have one hour to prepare a short presentation that takes the form of a French-style dissertation (a methodologically codified essay, typically structured in 3 parts: thesis, counter-thesis, and synthesis) in history, philosophy, etc. on a given topic, or the form of a commentaire composé (a methodologically codified commentary) in literature and foreign languages. In Ancient Greek or Latin, they involve a translation and a commentary. The student then has 20 minutes to present his/her work to the teacher, who finally asks some questions on the presentation and on the corresponding topic.

text: Colles are regarded as very stressful, particularly due to the high standards expected by the teachers, and the subsequent harshness that may be directed at students who do not perform adequately. But they are important insofar as they prepare the students, from the very first year, for the oral part of the highly competitive examinations, which are reserved for the happy few who successfully pass the written part.

text: Recruitment of teachers[edit]

text: Decades ago[when?], primary school teachers were educated in Ecoles Normales and secondary teachers recruited through the "Agrégation" examination. The situation has been diversified by the introduction in the 1950s of the CAPES examination for secondary teachers and in the 1990s by the institution of "Instituts Universitaires de Formation des Maîtres" (IUFM), which have recently been renamed Écoles Supérieures du Professorat et de l’Éducation (ESPE). University teachers are recruited by special commissions, and are divided between:

text:
"teachers-researchers" (enseignants-chercheurs), with at least a doctorate: they teach classes and conduct research in their field of expertise with a full tenure. They are either Maître de Conférences (Senior lecturers), or Professeurs (Professors). Only a Professor can be the director of studies for a PhD student. The net pay is from 2300 to 8800 (with extra duties) euros per month. Net salaries of over 4000 euros per month (2011 level) are however very unusual, and limited to the small minority of teacher-researchers who have held the grade of first class full professor for at least seven years, which is rare. The maximum possible net salary for second-class full professors and chief senior lecturers (maître de conférence hors classe)—the end of career status for most full-time teacher-researchers in French universities—is 3760 Euros a month (2011)—and only a minority of this group ever reach this level.
Secondary school teachers who have been permanently assigned away from their original school position to teach in a university. They are not required to conduct any research but teach twice as many hours as the "teachers-researchers". They are called PRAG (professeurs agrégés) and PRCE (professeurs certifiés). Their weekly service is 15 or 18 hours. The net pay is from 1400 to 3900 euros per month.
CPGE teachers are usually "agrégés" or "chaire sup", assigned by the Inspection Général according to their qualifications and competitive exam rank as well as other factors. Their weekly service is about 9 hours a week, 25 or 33 weeks a year. Net pay : from 2000 to 7500 euro (extra hours)
Primary school and kindergarten teachers (Professeurs des écoles), educated in "Instituts Universitaires de Formation des Maîtres" (IUFM), have usually a "master" (Bac+5). Their weekly service is about 28 hours a week.

text: Religion[edit]

text: Religious instruction is not given by public schools (except for 6- to 18-year-old students in Alsace-Moselle under the Concordat of 1801). Laïcité (secularism) is one of the main precepts of the French republic.

text: In a March 2004 ruling, the French government banned all "conspicuous religious symbols" from schools and other public institutions with the intent of preventing proselytisation and to foster a sense of tolerance among ethnic groups. Some religious groups showed their opposition, saying the law hindered the freedom of religion as protected by the French constitution.

text: Statistics[edit]

text: The French Republic has 67 million inhabitants, living in the 13 regions of metropolitan France and four overseas departments (2.7 million). Despite the fact that the population is growing (up 0.4% a year), the proportion of young people under 25 is falling. There are now[when?] fewer than 19 million young people in metropolitan France, or 32% of the total population, compared with 40% in the 1970s and 35% at the time of the 190 census. France is seeing a slow aging of the population—less marked however than in other neighbouring countries (such as Germany and Italy), especially as the annual number of births is currently increasing slightly.

text: Eighteen million pupils and students, i.e. a quarter of the population, are in the education system. Of these, over 2.4 million are in higher education.[17] The French Education Minister reported in 2000 that 39 out of 75,000 state schools were "seriously violent" and 300 were "somewhat violent".[18]


document_title: Wreck-It Ralph

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text: Wreck-It Ralph

text: Plot[edit]

text: When Litwak's Family Fun Center & Arcade closes at night, the various video game characters leave their normal in-game roles and socialize in a power strip. Wreck-It Ralph, the antagonist of the game Fix-It Felix Jr., is ostracized by its other characters for just doing his job, while the titular hero Felix is praised and rewarded medals for protecting the inhabitants from Ralph. Tired of being mistreated, Ralph announces at the game's thirtieth anniversary party that he will earn his neighbors' respect by winning a medal.

text: Ralph learns he can obtain a medal from the first-person shooter, Hero's Duty. After disrupting a game session, Ralph scales the game's central beacon and obtains a medal, only to hatch a Cy-Bug, one of the game's monsters, which can adapt to other environments and incorporate the artifacts that it devours from those places into its body. Ralph and the Cy-Bug stumble into an escape pod, which is launched out of the game, and crash land in Sugar Rush, a candy-themed kart racing game.

text: With Ralph missing, his game is labelled as malfunctioning and faces being unplugged. Felix, upon learning from Q*bert that Ralph has left his game, ventures to Hero's Duty and allies with the game's heroine, Sergeant Calhoun, to retrieve Ralph and the Cy-Bug.

text: A little girl, Vanellope von Schweetz, steals Ralph's medal to buy her way into the nightly race to determine which characters players can choose as their avatar. King Candy, the ruler of Sugar Rush, forbids her from racing because she has glitches that cause her to teleport erratically. Ralph and Vanellope agree to work together to retrieve his medal and help her win a race. They build a kart and hide out at Diet Cola Mountain, an unfinished race track, where Ralph teaches her to drive. King Candy hacks the game's code to obtain Ralph's medal, and offers it to Ralph in exchange for preventing Vanellope from racing. He claims that if Vanellope wins and becomes playable, her glitches will be brought to the attention of players and Sugar Rush will be unplugged; the glitch Vanellope cannot leave her game, and she will be left to die while King Candy and his subjects become homeless in the arcade. Ralph reluctantly agrees and destroys Vanellope's kart. Upon returning to his game, which has been evacuated in anticipation of it being unplugged the next morning, he notices Vanellope's image on the side of the Sugar Rush cabinet and realizes she was meant to be a playable character.

text: Meanwhile, Felix and Calhoun search Sugar Rush for Ralph. Felix falls in love with Calhoun, but she abandons him when he inadvertently reminds her of her late fiancé. Felix is later imprisoned in King Candy's castle, but Ralph frees him and Vanellope, and Felix fixes the kart. Calhoun discovers a swarm of Cy-Bug eggs underground, which hatch and start devouring the game.

text: Vanellope participates in the race, but is attacked by King Candy. Vanellope's glitch reveals he is actually Turbo, a notorious auto-racer who attempted to take over a more popular game, sabotaging them and resulting in both being unplugged, which his name is used as an idiom. He took over Sugar Rush, displacing Vanellope as the main character. Ralph, Felix, and Calhoun evacuate the game, but Vanellope is trapped due to her glitches. When Calhoun points out that the Cy-Bugs can be attracted and destroyed by a beacon of light as in Hero's Duty, Ralph decides to sacrifice himself to make Diet Cola Mountain erupt, replicating the beacon. During his attempts Ralph is confronted by Turbo, now fused with the Cy-Bug that devoured him. Ralph makes the mountain erupt and falls into its depths, but Vanellope saves him using her glitch. The volcanic beacon destroys the Cy-Bugs and Turbo.

text: Vanellope crosses the finish line, rebooting Sugar Rush and restoring her status and memory as Princess Vanellope, the main character of the game, but keeps her glitching ability. Ralph and Felix return home and their game is spared. Felix and Calhoun marry. Vanellope gains popularity as a playable character, and a content Ralph gains respect from his fellow characters.

text: Voice cast[edit]

text:
John C. Reilly as Wreck-It Ralph, a gigantic but soft-hearted man who is the villain of the fictional arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr.[5]
Sarah Silverman as Vanellope von Schweetz, a racer/glitch in Sugar Rush.[5]
Jack McBrayer as Fix-It Felix Jr., a repairman who is the hero of Fix-It Felix Jr.[5][14]
Jane Lynch as Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun, the lead character of Hero's Duty.[5]
Alan Tudyk as King Candy, the ruler of Sugar Rush who is revealed to be Turbo, an infamous character from another kart racing video game known for having crashed another game out of jealousy. King Candy's vocal stylings are based on comedian Ed Wynn, and his physical mannerisms are modeled from Wynn's Mad Hatter character in Alice in Wonderland.[15]
Mindy Kaling as Taffyta Muttonfudge, a racer in Sugar Rush.[16]
Joe Lo Truglio as Markowski, a soldier from Hero's Duty that Ralph meets in Tapper.
Ed O'Neill as Mr. Stan Litwak, owner of Litwak's Family Fun Center & Arcade.[16]
Dennis Haysbert as General Hologram, a holographic general in Hero's Duty.
Adam Carolla as Wynnchel, a Long John who is a member of the Sugar Rush police department.[16]
Horatio Sanz as Duncan, a doughnut who is a member of the Sugar Rush police department.[16]
Rich Moore as Sour Bill, King Candy's sour ball henchman.[17][18]

text: The cast also includes the Fix-It Felix Jr. Nicelanders, Edie McClurg as Mary,[16] Raymond S. Persi as Mayor Gene,[19] Jess Harnell as Don, Rachael Harris as Deanna,[16] and Skylar Astin as Roy; Katie Lowes as Candlehead, Jamie Elman as Rancis Fluggerbutter, Josie Trinidad as Jubileena Bing-Bing, and Cymbre Walk as Crumbelina DiCaramello, racers in Sugar Rush; Phil Johnston as Surge Protector, Game Central Station security;[20] Stefanie Scott as Moppet Girl, a young arcade-game player;[16] John DiMaggio as Beard Papa, the security guard at the Sugar Rush candy-kart factory; Raymond Persi as a Zombie, Brian Kesinger as a Cyborg (based on Kano from Mortal Kombat) and Martin Jarvis as Saitine, a devil-like villain, who attends the Bad-Anon support group; Tucker Gilmore as the Sugar Rush Announcer; Brandon Scott as Kohut, a soldier in Hero's Duty; and Tim Mertens as Dr. Brad Scott, a scientist and Sgt. Calhoun's deceased fiancé in Hero's Duty (voiced by Nick Grimshaw in the UK version but not in the UK home release).[21]

text: The film features several cameos from real-world video game characters including: Root Beer Tapper (Maurice LaMarche), the bartender from Tapper;[22] Sonic the Hedgehog (Roger Craig Smith);[16][20] Ryu (Kyle Hebert), Ken Masters (Reuben Langdon), M. Bison (Gerald C. Rivers), and Zangief (Rich Moore) from Street Fighter II;[1][16][23] Clyde (Kevin Deters) from Pac-Man;[24] and Yuni Verse (Jamie Sparer Roberts) from Dance Dance Revolution.[25]

text: A character modeled after dubstep musician Skrillex makes an appearance in the fictional Fix-It Felix Jr. as the DJ at the anniversary party of the game.[26]

text: Video game cameos and references[edit]

text:
In addition to the spoken roles, Wreck-It Ralph contains a number of other video game references, including characters and visual gags. The video game villains at the support meeting, in addition to those mentioned above, include Bowser from the Mario franchise,[1][14][23] Doctor Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog,[1][23] and Neff from Altered Beast.[27]
Additionally, the game cabinet of the fictional Fix It Felix Jr. arcade game is stylized to strongly resemble the cabinet of the original Nintendo Donkey Kong arcade game,[28] with Ralph and Felix taking similar poses as Donkey Kong and Mario, respectively. The Hero's Duty game is a reference to the hugely successful first-person shooter games Halo and Call of Duty.
Characters from Q*bert, including Q*bert, Coily, Slick, Sam, and Ugg, are shown as "homeless" characters and later taken in by Ralph and Felix into their game (Q*bert also speaks to Felix at one point using the signature synthesized gibberish and word-balloon symbols from his game, called Q*bert-ese).[22][29] Scenes in Game Central Station and Tapper's bar include Chun-Li, Cammy and Blanka from Street Fighter,[23][30] Pac-Man, Blinky, Pinky, and Inky from Pac-Man,[22][31] the Paperboy from Paperboy,[27][32] the two paddles and the ball from Pong,[33] Dig Dug, a Pooka, and a Fygar from Dig Dug,[33] The Qix from Qix,[31] Frogger from Frogger, and Peter Pepper from BurgerTime.[34] Lara Croft and Mario are also mentioned.[35]

text: Additional references are based on sight gags. The residents of Niceland and the bartender from Tapper are animated using a jerky motion that spoofs the limited animation cycles of the sprites of many eight- and sixteen-bit arcade games.[36] King Candy uses the Konami Code on an NES controller to access the programming of Sugar Rush.[37] Throughout Game Central Station is graffiti that includes "Aerith lives" (referencing the character of Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII),[32][38] "All your base are belong to us" (an Engrish phrase popularized from the game Zero Wing), "Sheng Long Was Here" (referencing an April Fool's joke around a made-up character Sheng Long from Street Fighter), and "Jenkins" (a nod to the popular Leeroy Jenkins meme from World of Warcraft).[39] There is also a reference to the Metal Gear series when Ralph is searching for a medal in Tapper's Lost and found, finding first a Super Mushroom from the Mario franchise, and then Metal Gear Solid's "Exclamation point" (with the corresponding sound effect from the game).[36] Mr. Litwak wears a black and white striped referee's shirt, a nod to the iconic outfit of Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day.[36] One of the songs in the credits is an original work from Buckner and Garcia, previously famous for writing video game-themed songs in the 1980s.[36] The Walt Disney Animation Studios opening logo is animated in an 8-bit pixelated fashion,[40] whereas the Walt Disney Pictures closing production logo appears in a glitched state, a reference to the kill screen from many early arcade games such as Pac-Man.[39]

text: Production[edit]

text: The concept of Wreck-It Ralph was first developed at Disney in the late 1980s, under the working title High Score. Since then, it was redeveloped and reconsidered several times: In the late 1990s, it took on the working title Joe Jump, then in the mid-2000s as Reboot Ralph.[41][42]

text: John Lasseter, the head of Walt Disney Animation Studios and executive producer of the film, describes Wreck-It Ralph as "an 8-bit video-game bad guy who travels the length of the arcade to prove that he's a good guy."[29] In a manner similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the Toy Story films, Wreck-It Ralph featured cameo appearances by a number of licensed video-game characters.[29] For example, one scene from the film shows Ralph attending a support group for the arcade's various villain characters, including Clyde from Pac-Man, Doctor Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog, and Bowser from Super Mario Bros.[29] Rich Moore, the film's director, had determined that for a film about a video-game world to feel authentic, "it had to have real characters from real games in it."[43] Moore aimed to add licensed characters in a similar manner as cultural references in Looney Tunes shorts, but considered "having the right balance so a portion of the audience didn't feel they were being neglected or talked down to."[44] However, Moore avoided creating the movie around existing characters, feeling that "there's so much mythology and baggage attached to pre-existing titles that I feel someone would be disappointed," and considered this to be a reason why movies based on video game franchises typically fail.[44] Instead, for Ralph, the development of new characters representative of the 8-bit video game was "almost like virgin snow," giving them the freedom to take these characters in new directions.[44]

text:
Before production, the existing characters were added to the story either in places they would make sense to appear or as cameos from a list of characters suggested by the film's creative team, without consideration if they would legally be able to use the characters.[43] The company then sought out the copyright holders' permissions to use the characters, as well as working with these companies to assure their characters were being represented authentically.[43] In the case of Nintendo, the writers had early on envisioned the Bad-anon meeting with Bowser as a major character within the scene; according to Moore, Nintendo was very positive towards this use, stating in Moore's own words, "If there is a group that is dedicated to helping the bad guy characters in video games then Bowser must be in that group!"[32] Nintendo had asked that the producers try to devise a scene that would be similarly appropriate for Mario for his inclusion in the film. Despite knowing they would be able to use the character, the producers could not find an appropriate scene that would let Mario be a significant character without taking away the spotlight from the main story and opted to not include the character.[32][45] Moore debunked a rumor that Mario and his brother character Luigi were not included due to Nintendo requesting too high a licensing fee, stating that the rumor grew out of a joke John C. Reilly made at Comic-Con.[35]
Dr. Wily from Mega Man was going to appear but was cut from the final version of the film.[46] Overall, there are about 188 individual character models in the movie as a result of these cameo inclusions.[43]

text: An earlier draft of the screenplay had Ralph and Vanellope spending time going around the game world to collect the pieces for her kart for Sugar Rush, and at times included Felix traveling with the pair. During these scenes, Ralph would have lied to Felix regarding his budding relationship with Calhoun, leading eventually to Ralph becoming depressed and abandoning his quest to get his medal back. At this point, a fourth game world, Extreme Easy Living 2, would have been introduced and was considered a "hedonistic place" between the social nature of The Sims and the open-world objective-less aspects of Grand Theft Auto, according to Moore.[47] Ralph would go there too, wallowing in his depression, and would find happiness by gaining "Like It" buttons for doing acceptable actions in the party-like nature of the place. Moore stated that while it was difficult to consider dropping this new game world, they found that its introduction in the second half of the film would be too difficult a concept for the viewer to grasp.[47] They further had trouble working out how a social game would be part of an arcade, and though they considered having the game be running on Litwak's laptop, they ultimately realized that justifying the concept would be too convoluted.  Line art sketches and voice-over readings of the scene were included on the home media release of the film.[47]

text: The film introduced Disney's new bidirectional reflectance distribution functions, with more realistic reflections on surfaces, and new virtual cinematography Camera Capture system, which makes it possible to go through scenes in real-time.[48] To research the Sugar Rush segment of the film, the visual development group traveled to trade fair ISM Cologne, a See's Candy factory, and other manufacturing facilities. The group also brought in food photographers, to demonstrate techniques to make food appear appealing. Special effects, including from "smoke or dust," looks distinct in each of the segments.[49]

text: Release[edit]

text: The film was originally scheduled for a release on March 22, 2013, but it was later changed to November 2, 2012, due to it being ahead of schedule.[50][51] The theatrical release was accompanied by Disney's animated short film, Paperman.[52][53]

text: Marketing[edit]

text: The first trailer for Wreck-It Ralph was released on June 6, 2012, debuting with Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Rock of Ages.[54] This also coincided with the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo, for which Disney constructed a mock aged arcade cabinet for the fictional Fix-It Felix Jr. game on display on the show floor.[55] Disney also released a browser-based Flash-based version of the Fix-It Felix Jr. game as well as iOS, Android, and Windows Phone versions, with online Unity-based versions of Sugar Rush and Hero's Duty.[56] A second trailer for the film was released on September 12, 2012, coinciding with Finding Nemo 3D and Frankenweenie.

text: To promote the home media release of Wreck-It Ralph, director Rich Moore produced a short film titled Garlan Hulse: Where Potential Lives. Set within the movie's universe, the mockumentary film was designed as a parody of The King of Kong.[57]

text: Home media[edit]

text: Wreck-It Ralph was released on Blu-ray Disc (2D and 3D) and DVD in North America on March 5, 2013, from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.[58] The film was made available for digital download in selected regions on February 12, 2013.[59] Wreck-It Ralph debuted at #1 in Blu-ray and DVD sales in the United States.[60]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Wreck-It Ralph grossed $189.4 million in North America and $281.8 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $471.2 million.[3] It was the 14th-highest-grossing film of 2012,[61] and the fourth-highest-grossing 2012 animated film.

text: In North America, the film debuted with $13.5 million, an above-average opening-day gross for an animated film released in November.[62] During its opening weekend, the film topped the box office with $49 million, making it the largest opening for a Walt Disney Animation Studios film at the time.[63][64]

text: Outside North America, Wreck-It Ralph earned $12 million on its opening weekend from six markets.[65] Among all markets, its three largest openings were recorded in the UK, Ireland and Malta ($7.15 million), Brazil ($5.32 million with weekday previews), and Russia and the CIS ($5.27 million).[66] In total grosses, the three largest markets were the UK, Ireland and Malta ($36.2 million), Japan ($29.6 million), and Australia ($24.0 million).[66]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: The review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 87% of critics have given the film a positive review, based on 174 reviews with an average score of 7.5/10. The site's consensus reads: "Equally entertaining for both kids and parents old enough to catch the references, Wreck-It Ralph is a clever, colorful adventure built on familiar themes and joyful nostalgia."[67] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 72 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[68] The film earned an "A" from audiences polled by CinemaScore.[69]

text: Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote, "More than in most animated films, the art design and color palette of Wreck-It Ralph permit unlimited sets, costumes, and rules, giving the movie tireless originality and different behavior in every different cyber world."[70] A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, "The movie invites a measure of cynicism – which it proceeds to obliterate with a 93-minute blast of color, noise, ingenuity and fun."[71] Peter Debruge of Variety stated, "With plenty to appeal to boys and girls, old and young, Walt Disney Animation Studios has a high-scoring hit on its hands in this brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed toon, earning bonus points for backing nostalgia with genuine emotion."[2] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times said, "The movie's subversive sensibility and old-school/new-school feel are a total kick,"[72] while Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "With a mix of retro eye-candy for grown-ups and a thrilling, approachable storyline for the tykes, the film casts a wide and beguiling net."[73] Conversely, Christopher Orr of The Atlantic found it "overplotted and underdeveloped."[74]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
List of awards and nominations

Award

Category

Recipients and nominees

Result

Academy Awards[12]

Best Animated Feature

Rich Moore

Nominated

Annie Awards[75][10]

Best Animated Feature

Won

Animated Effects in an Animated Production

Brett Albert

Nominated

Character Design in an Animated Feature Production

Bill Schwab, Lorelay Bove, Cory Loftis, Minkyu Lee

Nominated

Directing in an Animated Feature Production

Rich Moore

Won

Music in an Animated Feature Production

Henry Jackman, Skrillex, Adam Young, Matthew Thiessen, Jamie Houston, Yasushi Akimoto

Won

Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production

Leo Matsuda

Nominated

Lissa Treiman

Nominated

Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production

Alan Tudyk

Won

Writing in an Animated Feature Production

Phil Johnston, Jennifer Lee

Won

Editorial in an Animated Feature Production

Tim Mertens

Nominated

Chicago Film Critics Association

Best Animated Feature

Nominated

Critics' Choice Movie Awards[76]

Best Animated Feature

Won

Golden Globe Awards[77]

Best Animated Feature Film

Nominated

Golden Reel Awards[78]

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in an Animation Feature Film

Won

Golden Trailer Awards[79]

Best Animation/Family

"Dreams"

Won

IGN's Best of 2012 Awards

Best Movie

Nominated

Best Animated Movie

Won

IGN People's Choice Award for Best Animated Movie

Won

Best 3D Movie

Nominated

Best Movie Poster

Nominated

National Board of Review Awards[80]

Best Animated Feature

Won

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

Favorite Animated Movie

Won

Online Film Critics Society Award

Best Animated Feature

Nominated

Producers Guild of America Award

Best Animated Motion Picture

Clark Spencer

Won

Satellite Awards[81]

Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature

Rich Moore

Nominated

Saturn Awards[82]

Best Animated Film

Rich Moore

Nominated

Visual Effects Society[83][84]

Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Sean Jenkins, Scott Kersavage, Rich Moore, Clark Spencer

Nominated

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

John Kahwaty, Suzan Kim, Michelle Robinson, Tony Smeed (for Vanellope)

Nominated

text: Soundtrack[edit]

text: The film's score was composed by Henry Jackman. The soundtrack also features original songs by Owl City, AKB48, Skrillex, and Buckner & Garcia.[85][86] Early in the development process, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote an original song for the film; it was later cut out.[87]

text:
Wreck-It Ralph: Original Motion Picture SoundtrackSoundtrack album by Various artistsReleased
October 30, 2012Recorded
2012Studio
Sony Scoring Stage (Score)Length
70:36Label
Walt DisneyProducer

Chris Montan
Tom MacDougall

Walt Disney Animation Studios chronology

Winnie the Pooh(2011) Winnie the Pooh2011

Wreck-It Ralph(2012) Wreck-It Ralph2012

Frozen(2013) Frozen2013

Henry Jackman chronology

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter(2012) Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter2012

Wreck-It Ralph(2012) Wreck-It Ralph2012

G.I. Joe: Retaliation(2013) G.I. Joe: Retaliation2013

Singles from Wreck-It Ralph

"When Can I See You Again?"Released: 2012

text: All music composed by Henry Jackman (except 1–6)[88].

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No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength1."When Can I See You Again?"
Adam Young
Matt Thiessen
Brian Lee
Owl City3:382."Wreck-It, Wreck-It Ralph"Jamie HoustonBuckner & Garcia2:593."Celebration"
Ronald Bell
Claydes Smith
George Melvin Brown
James "J.T." Taylor
Robert Mickens
Earl Eugene Toon Jr.
Dennis Ronald Thomas
Robert Bell
Eumir Deodato
Kool & the Gang3:404."Sugar Rush"
Yasushi Akimoto
Jamie Houston
AKB483:145."Bug Hunt (Noisia Remix)" (featuring John C. Reilly)SkrillexSkrillex7:046."Shut Up and Drive"
Evan Rogers
Carl Sturken
Stephen Morris
Peter Hook
Bernard Sumner
Gillian Gilbert
Rihanna3:327."Wreck-It Ralph"  1:338."Life in the Arcade"  0:439."Jumping Ship"  1:0610."Rocket Fiasco"  5:4811."Vanellope von Schweetz"  2:5712."Royal Raceway"  3:2313."Cupcake Breakout"  1:1214."Candy Vandals"  1:3915."Turbo Flashback"  1:4216."Laffy Taffies"  1:3517."One Minute to Win It"  1:1718."Vanellope's Hideout"  2:3319."Messing with the Program"  1:2020."King Candy"  2:1121."Broken-Karted"  2:4922."Out of the Penthouse, Off to the Race"  2:5123."Sugar Rush Showdown"  4:1524."You're My Hero"  4:1625."Arcade Finale"  3:19Total length:70:36

text: Video games[edit]

text: In addition to the Flash version of the Fix-It Felix Jr. game, Disney released a tie-in side-scrolling platform game called Wreck-It Ralph for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo DS, to mostly negative reviews.[89][90] The arcade style side-scrolling game was produced in collaboration between Disney Interactive and Activision and serves as a "story extension" to the film. Taking place following the events of the film, players may play as Wreck-It Ralph or Fix-It Felix, causing or repairing damage, respectively, following another Cy-Bug incident. Game levels are based on the locations in the film like the Fix-It Felix Jr., Hero's Duty, and Sugar Rush games as well as Game Central Station. It was released in conjunction with the film's release, in November 2012.[91]

text: In October 2012, Disney released fully playable browser-based versions of the Hero's Duty and Sugar Rush games on the new official film site.[92] A mobile game titled Wreck-it Ralph was released in November 2012 for iOS and Android systems,[93] with a Windows Phone 8 version following almost a year later.[94] Initially, the game consisted of three mini-games, Fix-it Felix Jr., Hero's Duty and Sweet Climber, which were later joined by Turbo Time and Hero's Duty: Flight Command.[95][96] The game was retired on August 29, 2014.[97]

text: Ralph also appears in Sega's Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed as a playable guest character.[98]

text: Ralph and Vanellope appear as playable characters in Disney Infinity as well (voiced by Brian T. Delaney and Sarah Silverman, respectively); the Disney Store released their individual figures on January 7, 2014.[99][100][101] A combo "toy box pack" of the two figures with Sugar Rush customization discs was released April 1, 2014, from the Disney Store.[102]

text: Wreck-It Ralph is a playable world on the mobile game Disney Crossy Road.[103] Ralph will make his debut appearance in the Kingdom Hearts video game series in the upcoming Kingdom Hearts III, serving as a summon.[104]

text: Sequel[edit]

text: In an interview on October 25, 2012, director Rich Moore said that he and Disney have ideas about a sequel that would bring the characters up to date and explore online gaming and console gaming.[105] Moore stated that many of the crew and voice cast are open to the sequel, believing that they have "barely scratched the surface" of the video game world they envisioned.[32] He also stated that he plans to include Mario and Tron in the sequel.[106][107] In a 2014 interview, the film's composer Henry Jackman said that a story for the sequel is being written.[108] In July 2015, John C. Reilly said he had signed on to reprise his role of Ralph in a projected sequel.[109]

text: On March 24, 2016, Rich Moore stated that a sequel is still being planned. Moore also hopes to specifically include an appearance from Mario, citing a "good relationship with Nintendo".[110] On June 30, 2016, Walt Disney Animation Studios announced that the sequel would be released on March 9, 2018, with John C. Reilly, Rich Moore, and writer Phil Johnston attached. John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman will reprise their roles as Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz, respectively. The plot will focus on "Ralph leaving the arcade and wrecking the Internet".[111][112] In April 2017, the sequel was pushed to November 21, 2018.[13]